Ilya Ivashka soars past Mikael Ymer 6-0 6-2 in the final in Salem Open on Saturday after playing a superlative match to win his 1st career title. The match lasted just 55 minutes. This is the first time that the Belarussian conquered this tournament. He has never played this tournament so far.
Ivashka added $ 40,505 to his prize money after winning this final. He has earned $ 96,505 in total after conquering this tournament.
Highlights Ilya Ivashka vs. Mikael Ymer Winston-Salem Open – Winston-Salem
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Ilya scored 62 points vs. the Swede’s 27.
Ivashka
Ilya served extremely well to win 100% of the points (18/18) behind his first serve, and he won 83% points (10/12) on his second serve. Ilya was effective at converting 63% of the break points that he conquered (5/8).
Ymer
On the other side, Ymer wasn’t able to conquer any break point. However, Ilya was just to good and the Swede had no opportunity to win this match.
After this match, the head to head between Ivashka and Ymer is 1-1.
This was the maiden title for the Belarussian that won his first title at the first attempt. The Swede lost the opportunity to win his title at the first attempt. (see list of titles and finals)
Live score progression and stats
There was not much of a fight in this set because the Belarussian conceded no games to Ymer before winning the set 6-0.
They contested 29 points. The Belarussian was the winner of the set after clinching 17 points more than Mikael (23-6). Ivashka was perfect on serve to drop not even a single point during his serving games (12-0). on the other side of the net, Ymer conceded 11 points on serve (6-11).
Ivashka was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Mikael Ymer in the 1st game (1-0). Ivashka managed to strengthen his lead after breaking the Swede in the 5th (4-1) game before conquering the set (6-2).
They contested 48 points. Ilya won 12 more points than Ymer (30-18). Ivashka was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (14-3). on the other side of the net, Mikael conceded 15 points on serve (14-15).